Bridgette K. Slavin, PhD, adjunct professor, department of history, will present “Let Her Be Hanged: Women, Crime and Punishment in Anglo-Norman Ireland” during the Spring Archives Speaker Series lecture in the Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library, today, Tuesday, March 15 at 4:00 p.m.
Slavin will focus on the history of women, crime and justice in Anglo-Norman Ireland based on her research of early 14th century justiciary rolls. Her work analyzes records of women who were executed in terms of ethnicity and status as well as gender.
Since 2007, the Archives Speaker Series since has featured scholars whose work relies on archival research and have produced an expression of scholarship based on that research. Sponsored by the Rev. J. Clayton Murray, SJ, Archives and Special Collections, and the Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library, the event is free and open to the public.
Slavin holds a PhD in Celtic studies from the University of Sydney where she investigated “the culturally and temporally specific rationale – being medieval, Irish and Christian – regarding supernatural practices and beliefs in early medieval Ireland.” She received her master’s degree in medieval studies from the Medieval Institute Western Michigan University, and a bachelor’s degree in history and anthropology, SUNY College at Oswego.
Among Slavin’s scholarly interests are: medieval cultural heritage and history; hagiography and the Cult of Saints; the supernatural; and religious interaction, such as conversion, popular religion, heresy; and Christian-Muslim, Christian-Judaic, and Muslim-Judiac relations.
For more information, contact Kathleen M. DeLaney, archivist and special collections librarian, at Ext. 8421 or delaneyk@canisius.edu.
Submitted by: Kathleen M. DeLaney, archivist and special collections librarian
